Re: Send Feedback...and BSA ideas

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:42 PM, bfo <bfo.bugmail@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
> jmadero wrote
> > The idea is that if the user chooses to submit without an account, the
> > bug will be reported under a default account (possibly
>
> > bugs@
>
> > ), they will be forced to enter an email address and
> > do a captcha - then their email address would go into the bug report as
> > a CC'ed user.
>
> Hi!
> This idea will not work with default installation - to be CCed, you have to
> be registered Bugzilla user.

Hmm...good to know.

> Entering an email and captcha is not really different than entering email
> and password while creating Bugzilla account (except that captcha is more
> annoying :)).

If the user has to have an account to be cc'd, we could simplify
account creation by auto-generating a password and emailing it to them
(as mailman does).

> This IMHO should be a requirement to process the bug report. There are
> already more than 1000 bugs in NEEDINFO state, so pseudo anonymous bug
> reporting won't help.

Joel -- how goes the bulk-processing of NEEDINFO bugs? I think we now
have a process in place that will scale-up pretty easily, right?

--R